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Verizon representatives elaborated on the carrier’s concerns over rules for...

Verizon representatives elaborated on the carrier’s concerns over rules for a short-term solution for texting to 911. The comments came in a meeting with David Goldman, aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. “Verizon remains supportive of a voluntary framework for deploying…

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text-to-911 and expressed concern for how adoption of an order might relate to Verizon’s chosen SMS-to-911 solution ... and result in even greater consumer and PSAP [public safety answering point] confusion concerning the availability of text-to-911 in a given geographic area,” the carrier said (http://xrl.us/bnrooy). “The parties also discussed the merits of a statewide approach for text-to-911 and [next-generation] 911, and Verizon explained that it currently provides a responsive message to subscribers in areas where the PSAP is not capable of handling text to 911 communications."